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In Luke chapter 5, Jesus is just beginning His public ministry in the area around the Sea of Galilee. One day He was standing by the shoreline teaching the Word of God and multitudes were pressing all around Him.

Jesus saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake so He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. He sat down and began teaching the multitudes from the boat. This would have created some distance so He could address the whole multitude, but the water would also have become a natural amplifier of His voice.

But the real point of the story is what happened after He finished teaching the multitudes, He turned to Simon and said, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." This was not about teaching Simon to catch fish, Simon caught fish for a living, he knew all about fishing.

This was about making Simon a disciple of Jesus Christ. And that's where we must put ourselves into the story because God's heart is that we also become disciples of Jesus Christ.

This story is filled with amazing insight into what it means to become a disciple and the transforming power that will have on our lives when we apply those same truths.

But before we look at this story, let's step back and take a broader view for a moment. First of all, what does it mean to be a disciple? The root meaning of the word is "one who is learning." But it has a deeper meaning than just being a student. To be a disciple meant to follow after the Teacher and to become like Him in character, thought, word, decisions, and manner of living.

To find a teacher in those days meant that you would learn how to live your life; his wisdom would become your wisdom, his character would become your character. You can take classes and learn how to have a career, but where do you learn how to have a life? That's what it meant to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. That's what we need today. Becoming a Christian is not just a matter of having your sins forgiven and your name written in the Lamb's book of life; it's about becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. It's about having His wisdom become your wisdom and His character become your character and His manner of life become your manner of life.

Another thing we should also learn from this story is that God loves to use unlikely people. It gives Him great glory to see those who are simple grow in wisdom and stature of God.

At the northern end of the Sea of Galilee, Jesus will receive four disciples and they’re all fishermen. How unlikely is that? Jesus will turn the world upside down using simple fishermen? He's going to take a tax collector, hated and despised by everyone, except by other tax collectors, and make him a disciple of the Son of God? How unlikely is that? Then to the other extreme, He's going to take Saul, a legalistic religious Jew, trained in the highest universities, and a violent persecutor of Christians and then make that man a disciple of Jesus Christ? How unlikely is that?

Who are you? Simple? Unsophisticated? Good, you're just the one God is looking for…

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